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SCMP Reporter

A deaf deacon stabbed his lover to death because she demanded that he divorce his wife, also deaf, and marry her, a court heard.
Yip Kai-ming, 45, has pleaded not guilty to murder, claiming he did not intend to kill the woman and was suffering from  psychological problems at the time.
Opening the prosecution before Mr Justice Michael McMahon and a jury at the Court of First Instance yesterday, Francis Lo Hing-cheung said Yip and victim Ng Kwai-fong, 39,  had developed an intimate relationship before the killing on September 13 last year at Ng's home in Sun Chui Estate, Sha Tin. 
Lo said Yip wanted to plead guilty to manslaughter but the prosecution would not accept that plea. 
He said Yip, who had two children with his wife, was a deacon of the Hong Kong Deaf People Christian Church in Kowloon City. 
Ng was married to Leung Wai-kong, also  deaf,  with whom she had two children, the court heard.  Leung last saw his wife at Hung Hom MTR station on the day she was killed,  when he took  their children to visit their grandparents.  Ng had told him that she planned to visit an elderly woman in Tai Po. 
Lo said Ng did not join her husband for dinner that evening as she had promised, and was found  dead in a pool of blood inside their flat when Leung and the children, aged  eight and  nine, returned home at about 10pm. 
The incident was reported to police after Leung sought help from a priest through a  fax.  
The prosecutor said Yip surrendered to police after  admitting to the church's minister on September 16 that he killed Ng. He told the minister that she wanted to marry him and demanded he divorce his wife. 
During police interviews, Yip  confessed that he stabbed Ng with a knife he bought  on the day of her killing. Lo said Yip  told police that he was annoyed with Ng and had  decided to kill her on September 11.
Yip also told police that he  bought  other  items along with the knife, including a pair of shoes,  gloves and  other clothes, before going to Ng's home on September 13. He had discarded the items at various locations after the killing, and they had been recovered by police with Yip's co-operation after the arrest.
The hearing continues today.



Deaf deacon stabbed lover to death over marriage, court told